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TagTeam social RSS aggregratorThe Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance<p>"This is the Pubpub site for <em>The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance</em> by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. It was used for open peer review through May 1, 2019....</p>
<p>Data should be open. The source data that represents the evidenciary basis for this book is freely available from the library of one of my home institutions. </p>
<p>Knowledge should be free. Upon publication, this book will be available in traditional forms (physical book and e-copy), but it will also be a free, downloadable, open access PDF. Open Access is about democratizing dissemination.</p>
<p>Free knowledge should be well-informed. This project has been through peer review @MITPress, and has benefitted from input from dozens of other readers. Open Peer Review is an opportunity to hear from an even broader range of voices. In other words, Open Peer Review goes some way toward democratizing knowledge production....</p>
<p>I am considering launching a “living version” of this book after it is published in fixed physical and digital form (as bound book or static PDF). What would happen if subsequent technological developments, theoretical insights, random heckling, and informed critique could be concentrated around the body of the text itself? What if the online version of the manuscript is opened to user contributions of video, datasets, supporting and contradicting evidence, Github links, source-files for 3D printed drones, and the like.</p>
<p>What does the future of publishing look like? I’m not sure, but am happy to be part of an experiment along the way...."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:11:00 -0400https://thegooddrone.pubpub.org/
oa.booksoa.peer_reviewoa.mitoa.pubpuboa.newoa.dynamicoa.open_peer_reviewoa.dataThe State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons | IDRC - International Development Research Centre<div><span>Editor(s): </span>Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini</div>
<div><span>Publisher(s): </span>African Minds, IDRC <span>2019-05-05</span></div>
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<p>In the decade since open data first broke onto the global stage, thousands of programs and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse.</p>
<p>As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? <em>The State of Open Data </em>brings together more than 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.</p>
<p>For further information, go to the <a href="http://stateofopendata.od4d.net/">online resource</a> for <em>The State of Open Data. </em></p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 05:19:00 -0400https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/state-open-data-histories-and-horizons
oa.newoa.publicationsoa.dataDear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Data (nsf19069) | NSF - National Science Foundation<p>"<span>Open science principles are increasingly being adopted by industry, government, and academia. Open science gives rise to public benefits by offering broader access to publication, data, and other research materials; broader access enables broader circulation of scientific knowledge, greater return on investments in research data, and more opportunities for replicating and building upon scientific findings.</span></p>
<p>NSF's open science policy is articulated in the Foundation's Public Access Plan (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15052">NSF 15-052</a>) and formally implemented in the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide and in the Award Terms and Conditions that accompany each award that NSF makes. Implications of this policy are further clarified in an actively-maintained set of Frequently Asked Questions (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18041">NSF 18-041</a>).</p>
<p>The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to describe — and encourage — effective practices for managing <em>research data</em><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19069/nsf19069.jsp#ftn1"><span>1</span></a>, including the use of persistent identifiers (IDs) for data and machine-readable data management plans (DMPs)...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 07:58:00 -0400https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19069/nsf19069.jsp
oa.newoa.usaoa.usa.nsfoa.policiesoa.policies.fundersoa.funders.publicoa.dataoa.dmpoa.fundersEinrichtung einer Clearing-Stelle für Datenschutz- und Urheberrechtsfragen gemeinsam für alle Forschungsinstitutionen (Establishment of a clearing house for data protection and copyright issues together for all research institutions)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p><strong>"Recommendation to establish a clearinghouse for privacy and copyright issues together for all research institutions</strong></p>
<p>Summary of the recommendation paper:</p>
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<li>settled at an Austrian institution, which feels committed as a "neutral place" to all researchers and other members of universities in Austria (eg in a KEMÖ-like structure);</li>
<li>with an open website ("chatroom") for common legal problems / questions on which experts of the institutions or lawyers contribute / share their expertise;</li>
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<p>→ start-up financing as a project in the framework of the digitization call of the BMBWF; then transfer into a permanent structure, supported by the institutions."</p>Thu, 23 May 2019 04:52:00 -0400https://www.oana.at/news-events/news-detailansicht/news/einrichtung-einer-clearing-stelle-fuer-datenschutz-und-urheberrechtsfragen-gemeinsam-fuer-alle-forsch/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=7b724894de4985ff092548fc55dbaeea
oa.newoa.austriaoa.germanoa.copyrightoa.licensingoa.privacyoa.universitiesoa.open_scienceoa.dataoa.rdmoa.infrastructureoa.heioa.libreoa.recommendationsAndré Laperrière: Executive Director at Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition - Geographical<p>"<strong>GODAN is a knowledge broker, facilitating </strong><span>the flow of data knowledge in relation to anything that has to do with agriculture on a worldwide basis. We focus on parts of the world that have the greatest potential for agriculture, bearing in the mind the 2050 horizon where in light of climate change and demographics there’s likely to be a global nutrition challenge. So our mission is to address that. We believe that knowledge, open-source data and innovation is the way to work on these challenges...."</span></p>
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Thu, 23 May 2019 04:51:00 -0400http://geographical.co.uk/people/i-m-a-geographer/item/3163-andre-laperriere
oa.newoa.peopleoa.godanoa.agricultureoa.nutritionoa.dataGovernance of a global genetic resource commons for non-commercial research: A case-study of the DNA barcode commons<p>Abstract: Life sciences research that uses genetic resources is increasingly collaborative and global, yet collective action remains a significant barrier to the creation and management of shared research resources. These resources include sequence data and associated metadata, and biological samples, and can be understood as a type of knowledge commons. Collective action by stakeholders to create and use knowledge commons for research has potential benefits for all involved, including minimizing costs and sharing risks, but there are gaps in our understanding of how institutional arrangements may promote such collective action in the context of global genetic resources. We address this research gap by examining the attributes of an exemplar global knowledge commons: The DNA barcode commons. DNA barcodes are short, standardized gene regions that can be used to inexpensively identify unknown specimens, and proponents have led international efforts to make DNA barcodes a standard species identification tool. Our research examined if and how attributes of the DNA barcode commons, including governance of DNA barcode resources and management of infrastructure, facilitate global participation in DNA barcoding efforts. Our data sources included key informant interviews, organizational documents, scientific outputs of the DNA barcoding community, and DNA barcode record submissions. Our research suggested that the goal of creating a globally inclusive DNA barcode commons is partially impeded by the assumption that scientific norms and expectations held by researchers in high income countries are universal. We found scientific norms are informed by a complex history of resource misappropriation and mistrust between stakeholders. DNA barcode organizations can mitigate the challenges caused by its global membership through creating more inclusive governance structures, developing norms for the community are specific to the context of DNA barcoding, and through increasing awareness and knowledge of pertinent legal frameworks.</p>
Tue, 21 May 2019 13:13:00 -0400https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.859/
oa.newoa.biologyoa.medicineoa.dataoa.specimensoa.commonsoa.collective_actionAfrican Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication – AfricArXiv<p>"1) Academic Research and knowledge from and about Africa should be freely available to all who wish to access, use or reuse it while at the same time being protected from misuse and misappropriation.</p>
<p>2) African scientists and scientists working on African topics and/or territory will make their research achievements including underlying datasets available in a digital Open Access repository or journal and an explicit Open Access license is applied.</p>
<p>3) African research output should be made available in the principle common language of the global science community as well as in one or more local African languages – at least in summary.</p>
<p>4) It is important to take into consideration in the discussions indigenous and traditional knowledge in its various forms.</p>
<p>5) It is necessary to respect the diverse dynamics of knowledge generation and circulation by discipline and geographical area.</p>
<p>6) It is necessary to recognise, respect and acknowledge the regional diversity of African scientific journals, institutional repositories and academic systems.</p>
<p>7) African Open Access policies and initiatives promote Open Scholarship, Open Source and Open Standards for interoperability purposes.</p>
<p>8) Multi-stakeholder mechanisms for collaboration and cooperation should be established to ensure equal participation across the African continent.</p>
<p>9) Economic investment in Open Access is consistent with its benefit to societies on the African continent – therefore institutions and governments in Africa provide the enabling environment, infrastructure and capacity building required to support Open Access</p>
<p>10) African Open Access stakeholders and actors keep up close dialogues with representatives from all world regions, namely Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania...."</p>
Mon, 20 May 2019 06:17:00 -0400https://info.africarxiv.org/african-principles-for-open-access-in-scholarly-communication/
oa.newoa.africaoa.principlesoa.scholcommoa.flossoa.standardsoa.interoperabilityoa.disciplinesoa.greenoa.goldoa.tkoa.licensingoa.repositoriesoa.libreoa.journalsoa.southoa.dataoa.declarationsoa.summariesThe Forest of the SPARC Landscape<p>"<a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/landscape-analysis/">The recent “Landscape Analysis” from SPARC</a><span>, released at the end of March, walks readers through a sober-sided evaluation of the market, with an emphasis on the major publishers — Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer Nature on the journals side, with Pearson and McGraw-Hill (and Cengage, now part of McGraw-Hill) on the education side.</span></p>
<p>There are some interesting analyses in the document, and some surprising figures to be sure (for example, Elsevier makes less money per article than either Springer Nature or Wiley). There are tables showing the asymmetry of usage (~5-7% of journals account for ~50% or more usage in multiple fields), but drawing what I consider to be unforgiving conclusion (I don’t agree that low usage equates to low value — a lot of good science and scholarship comes out of small disciplines, new ways of thinking, or emerging fields). The authors confirm in passing <a href="https://thegeyser.substack.com/p/site-licenses-as-rain-in-the-river">my finding that subscriptions only cost academic institutions 0.5% of their budgets</a>. There are arguments about productivity gains, and some contradictory and incomplete data. But overall, the analysis seems solid at the detailed level, missing the mark only a few times here and there.</p>
<p>What’s truly interesting about the analysis is the forest it describes — the big picture it asserts — which is alive with customer knowledge and Big Data assumptions. The authors examine how Elsevier and other companies are now pivoting away from content and into the surveillance economy.</p>
<p>The implications of this are examined in the analysis through a narrow premise — that academic institutions can and should guide the data acquisition and analysis practices of private firms using information products as ways to ignite data exhaust they can use to sell information and projections about academic practices, research areas, and individuals back to institutions.</p>
<p>What the analysis describes is a fascinating — and totally expected — pivot, one we’ve seen developing for quite some time. The SPARC analysis puts a pin in it, and states it quite explicitly.</p>
<p>But exploring the forest is where the analysis falls down, failing multiple times to answer questions its own premise begs — for instance, it asserts data acquisition and analysis should be guided by academic culture, without testing whether there is actually something we can identify as “academic culture” against which proper data utilization practices can be judged...."</p>
Sat, 18 May 2019 06:55:00 -0400https://thegeyser.substack.com/p/the-forest-of-the-sparc-report
oa.newoa.sparcoa.elsevieroa.publishersoa.dataoa.analyticsoa.business_modelsoa.academic_ledMaking the case for a Public Library of India - Bangalore International Centre<p>"Can India lead a global revolution in access to knowledge? In this talk, Carl Malamud will discuss some efforts in India to take some small initial steps to change how we access information. He will discuss public interest litigation in the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi with two co-petitioners to make all Indian standards available.</p>
<p>In Bengaluru, the Indian Academy of Sciences has embarked on an ambitious program to digitize scientific literature, a program which will soon expand to other kinds of institutions in Chennai, Mangalore, and other locations, a program driven by a volunteer group known as the Servants of Knowledge. And, in Delhi, 750 terra bytes of disk is spinning at JNU and IIT Delhi, the beginnings of a research facility for big data and text mining as well as a distribution depot for moving content throughout India. Carl will explain who these components are part of his vision for what might become a Public Library of India, making available the vast treasures of knowledge of India to all...."</p>
Sat, 18 May 2019 06:48:00 -0400http://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/making-the-case-for-a-public-library-of-india/
oa.newoa.indiaoa.digitizationoa.choa.eventsoa.dataoa.miningoa.southOpen NetSci Hackathon<p>"<span>The Open NetSci Hackathon is an event sponsored by</span><span> </span><a href="https://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2018/04/18/stop-hiding-your-code/">PLOS</a><span>. It is part of the extended program of the</span><span> </span><a href="http://netsci2019.com/">14th International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2019)</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>The goal of the Hackathon is to promote open research practice in Network Science. For the first edition, the theme will be open code and data.</p>
<p>We hope to make the hackathon a perfect venue for getting together, and hacking away at fun projects in a laid-back, friendly environment...."</p>
Fri, 17 May 2019 06:47:00 -0400https://opennetsci.github.io/
oa.newoa.eventsoa.code4oaoa.flossoa.open_scienceoa.dataoa.plosExploring the quality of government open data | Comparison study of the UK, the USA and Korea | The Electronic Library | Vol 37, No 1<p>Abstract: Purpose</p>
<p>The use of “open data” can help the public find value in various areas of interests. Many governments have created and published a huge amount of open data; however, people have a hard time using open data because of data quality issues. The UK, the USA and Korea have created and published open data; however, the rate of open data implementation and level of open data impact is very low because of data quality issues like incompatible data formats and incomplete data. This study aims to compare the statuses of data quality from open government sites in the UK, the USA and Korea and also present guidelines for publishing data format and enhancing data completeness.</p>
<p>Design/methodology/approach</p>
<p>This study uses statistical analysis of different data formats and examination of data completeness to explore key issues of data quality in open government data.</p>
<p>Findings</p>
<p>Findings show that the USA and the UK have published more than 50 per cent of open data in level one. Korea has published 52.8 per cent of data in level three. Level one data are not machine-readable; therefore, users have a hard time using them. The level one data are found in portable document format and hyper text markup language (HTML) and are locked up in documents; therefore, machines cannot extract out the data. Findings show that incomplete data are existing in all three governments’ open data.</p>
<p>Originality/value</p>
<p>Governments should investigate data incompleteness of all open data and correct incomplete data of the most used data. Governments can find the most used data easily by monitoring data sets that have been downloaded most frequently over a certain period.</p>
Thu, 16 May 2019 12:44:00 -0400https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/EL-06-2018-0124
oa.newoa.psioa.governmentoa.qualityoa.ukoa.paywalledoa.usaoa.south_koreaoa.formatsoa.comparisonsoa.dataExploring the quality of government open data | Comparison study of the UK, the USA and Korea | The Electronic Library | Vol 37, No 1<p>Abstract: Purpose</p>
<p>The use of “open data” can help the public find value in various areas of interests. Many governments have created and published a huge amount of open data; however, people have a hard time using open data because of data quality issues. The UK, the USA and Korea have created and published open data; however, the rate of open data implementation and level of open data impact is very low because of data quality issues like incompatible data formats and incomplete data. This study aims to compare the statuses of data quality from open government sites in the UK, the USA and Korea and also present guidelines for publishing data format and enhancing data completeness.</p>
<p>Design/methodology/approach</p>
<p>This study uses statistical analysis of different data formats and examination of data completeness to explore key issues of data quality in open government data.</p>
<p>Findings</p>
<p>Findings show that the USA and the UK have published more than 50 per cent of open data in level one. Korea has published 52.8 per cent of data in level three. Level one data are not machine-readable; therefore, users have a hard time using them. The level one data are found in portable document format and hyper text markup language (HTML) and are locked up in documents; therefore, machines cannot extract out the data. Findings show that incomplete data are existing in all three governments’ open data.</p>
<p>Originality/value</p>
<p>Governments should investigate data incompleteness of all open data and correct incomplete data of the most used data. Governments can find the most used data easily by monitoring data sets that have been downloaded most frequently over a certain period.</p>
Thu, 16 May 2019 12:44:00 -0400https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/EL-06-2018-0124
oa.newoa.psioa.governmentoa.qualityoa.ukoa.paywalledoa.usaoa.south_koreaoa.formatsoa.comparisonsoa.dataState of Open Data: Histories and Horizons<p>"It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 65 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come....</p>
<p>The main goal of this project is to learn in order to help shape the future of open data based on information and evidence gathered from the community. With over 65 authors, an Editorial Board, and a development methodology that allows for flexibility and community feedback, The State of Open Data - Histories and Horizons brings a myriad of perspectives to the task of reviewing the state of open data...."</p>
Thu, 16 May 2019 12:22:00 -0400https://stateofopendata.od4d.net/
oa.newoa.dataoa.monitoringoa.caseoa.case.dataoa.privacyoa.aioa.recommendationsoa.history_ofThe Guild publishes recommendations for transition towards Open Acess - ERA Portal Austria<p>On 2 May 2019, the Guild has published a position paper presenting its proposals for a successful transition towards Open Access. Ahead of the publication of Plan S’ revised Implementation Guidance, the paper outlines how Plan S can be enhanced to realise the ambitions of Open Science. On 2 May 2019, the Guild has published a position paper presenting its proposals for a successful transition towards Open Access. Ahead of the publication of Plan S’ revised Implementation Guidance, the paper outlines how Plan S can be enhanced to realise the ambitions of Open Science. </p><p> </p><ul><li><img alt="" src="https://era.gv.at/object/news/4705/thumbnail/1_Hand_Schloss_Computer.jpg/maxwidth/460"></li></ul>Thu, 16 May 2019 06:06:00 -0400https://era.gv.at/mobile/news/4705
oa.newoa.austriaoa.recommendationsoa.fundersoa.speedoa.growthoa.plan_soa.open_scienceoa.incentivesoa.collaborationoa.dataoa.conversionsAccessible knowledge for better medicine - SNF<p><span>The biotech sector is seeing rapid change. And these changes need to be shaped actively. It is therefore fitting that the theme of this year's Swiss Biotech Report is "Shaping Change". The SNSF's contribution to the report promotes the global push for open science. If all research data is disclosed (open research data), replicating and verifying research findings will become much easier. Open access to scientific publications will accelerate processes and make them more transparent. By pursuing this goal, the SNSF is making a contribution towards increased efficiency in biomedical research.</span></p>
Thu, 16 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400http://www.snf.ch/en/researchinFocus/newsroom/Pages/news-190508-accessible-knowledge-for-better-medicine.aspx
oa.newoa.switzerlandoa.biotechoa.fundersoa.dataoa.rdmoa.open_scienceoa.biomedicineoa.medicineHow EIFL’s open science training is advancing openness in science and research<p>Open science is a research approach that opens up access to all aspects of research while the research is in process (including lab notes and methodology, raw data and analysis), and encourages collaboration among researchers. It incorporates open data (making research data freely available online) and open access (free, online access to research outputs such as articles and books or monographs).</p>
<p>Opening up research means a fundamental change to the way research is done, generating huge need for training to enable researchers to practise open science.</p>
<p>This two-page brochure, based on a feature article originally published in <a href="https://www.eifl.net/news/2018-eifl-annual-report">EIFL’s 2018 Annual Report</a>, describes the impact of EIFL’s open science training, at universities and research institutes in Africa and Europe. </p>
Thu, 16 May 2019 04:37:00 -0400https://www.eifl.net/resources/how-eifls-open-science-training-advancing-openness-science-and-research
oa.newoa.franceoa.europeoa.open_scienceoa.reportsoa.dataoa.rdmoa.booksoa.guidesDatenbank BacDive erweitert Zugriff auf über 900.000 Metadaten mikrobiologischer Forschungsdaten (Database BacDive extends access to over 900,000 metadata of microbiological research data)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase (BacDive) freely exposes bacterial and archaeal data to FAIR principles worldwide and integrates microbiological metadata from other European core collections."</p>
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Wed, 15 May 2019 23:37:00 -0400https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/openscience/news/Datenbank-BacDive-erweitert-Zugriff-auf-ueber-900000-Metadaten-mikrobiologischer-Forschungsdaten/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.germanoa.dataoa.rdmoa.platformsoa.repositories.dataoa.biologyoa.metadataoa.principlesoa.fairoa.repositoriesStrategischer Leitfaden zur Etablierung einer institutionellen Forschungsdaten-Policy ( Strategic Guide to Establishing an Institutional Research Data Policy)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"Research data is a valuable asset for scientific knowledge. Their preservation and retention, combined with the least open access possible, are increasingly a central concern of universities. A research data policy (FD policy) helps to secure the value of research data in the long term and to establish sustainable research data management (FDM) at the university. FDM and FD policy are interdependent: the FD policy raises awareness and draws researchers' attention to research data, but it can only be lived if the different roles in FDM are defined and FDM services are offered to researchers."</p>
Wed, 15 May 2019 03:00:00 -0400https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/9354
oa.newoa.germanoa.germanyoa.dataoa.rdmoa.policies.dataoa.mandatesoa.mandates.dataoa.reportsoa.best_practicesoa.policies.universitiesoa.recommendationsoa.policiesoa.universitiesOpen Source--It's in the Genes | Linux Journal<p>"<span>Just as software code can be open source rather than proprietary, so there are publicly funded genomic sequencing initiatives that make their results available to all. One of the largest projects, the</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/">UK Biobank</a><span>(UKB), involves 500,000 participants. Any researcher, anywhere in the world, can download complete, anonymized data sets, provided they are approved by the UKB board. One important restriction is that they must not try to re-identify any participant—something that would be relatively easy to do given the extremely detailed clinical history that was gathered from volunteers along with blood and urine samples. Investigators asked all 500,000 participants about their habits, and examined them for more than 2,000 different traits, including data on their social lives, cognitive state, lifestyle and physical health.</span></p>
<p>Given the large number of genomes that need to be sequenced, the first open DNA data sets from UKB are only partial, although the plan is to sequence all genomes more fully in due course. These smaller data sets allow what is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotyping">"genotyping"</a>, which provides a rough map of a person's DNA and its specific properties. Even this partial sequencing provides valuable information, especially when it is available for large numbers of people. As an article in <em>Science</em> points out, it is not just the size and richness of the open data sets that makes the UK Biobank unique, it is <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/huge-trove-british-biodata-unlocking-secrets-depression-sexual-orientation-and-more">the thorough-going nature of the sharing</a> that is required from researchers....</p>
<p>It's the classic <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html">"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"</a>. By open-sourcing the genomic code of 500,000 of its citizens, the UK is getting the top DNA hackers in the world to find the "bugs"—the variants that are associated with medical conditions—that will help our understanding of them and may well lead to the development of new treatments for them. The advantages are so obvious, it's a wonder people use anything else. A bit like open source...."</p>
Tue, 14 May 2019 08:13:00 -0400https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-its-genes
oa.newoa.biologyoa.medicineoa.dataoa.privacyoa.collaborationoa.flossData Communities A New Model for Supporting STEM Data Sharing<p>"<span>In this issue brief, we build on our ongoing research into scholarly practices to propose a new mechanism for conceptualizing and supporting STEM research data sharing.</span><span><span><a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/data-communities/#post-311396-footnote-9">[8]</a></span></span><span> Successful data sharing happens within </span><strong>data communities</strong><span>, formal or informal groups of scholars who share a certain type of data with each other, regardless of disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on Ithaka S+R findings and the scholarly literature, we identify what constitutes a data community and outline its most important features by studying three success stories, investigating the circumstances under which intensive data sharing is already happening. We contend that stakeholders who wish to promote data sharing – librarians, information technologists, scholarly communications professionals, and research funders, to name a few – should work to identify and support </span><strong>emergent data communities</strong><span>. These are groups of scholars for whom a relatively straightforward technological intervention, usually the establishment of a data repository, could kickstart the growth of a more active data sharing culture. We conclude by responding to some potential counterarguments to this call for bottom-up intervention and offering recommendations for ways forward...."</span></p>
Tue, 14 May 2019 06:39:00 -0400https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/data-communities/
oa.newoa.dataoa.stemoa.collaborationoa.recommendations"A love letter to your future self": What scientists need to know about FAIR data | Nature Index<p>"<span>The idea that scientific data should be </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618">FAIR</a><span> — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — is one increasingly endorsed by scientific institutions including the </span><a href="https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/United%20States%20of%20America%20(USA)">United States</a><span> </span><a href="https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/united-states-of-america-usa/national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine/5139074634d6b65e6a002347">National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine</a><span>, the </span><a href="https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/belgium/european-commission-ec/52e85f52140ba0020a000000">European Commission</a><span>, and the Wellcome Trust. But it is yet to gain much traction among the people that ultimately matter, the scientists generating the data. The 2018 State of Open Data report, published by Digital Science, found that just 15% of researchers were “familiar with FAIR principles”. ..."</span></p>
Mon, 13 May 2019 10:00:00 -0400https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/what-scientists-need-to-know-about-fair-data
oa.newoa.dataoa.fairoa.unfamiliarityoa.complianceoa.metadataoa.terminologyoa.definitionsData sharing and how it can benefit your scientific career<p>"Ecologist Thomas Crowther knew that scientists had already collected a vast amount of field data on forests worldwide. But almost all of those data were sequestered in researchers’ notebooks or personal computers, making them unavailable to the wider scientific community. In 2012, Crowther, then a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, began to e-mail and cold-call researchers to request their data. He started to assemble an inventory, now hosted by the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative, an international research collaboration, that contains data on more than 1 million locations. Data are stored in CSV files (plain-text files that contain a list of data) on servers at Crowther’s present laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and on those of a collaborator at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; he hopes to outsource database storage to a third-party organization with expertise in archiving and access.</p>
<p>After years of courting and cajoling, Crowther has persuaded about half of the data owners to make their data public. The other half, he laments, say that they support open data in principle, but have specific reasons for keeping their data sets private. Mainly, he explains, they want to use their data to conduct and publish their own studies.</p>
<p>Crowther’s database challenges reflect the current state of science: partly open, partly closed, and with unclear and inconsistent policies and expectations on data sharing that are still in flux...."</p>
Mon, 13 May 2019 09:58:00 -0400https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01506-x
oa.newoa.dataoa.obstaclesoa.incentivesoa.benefitsoa.policiesoa.doisoa.attributionoa.collaborationOpen call: become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow – Open Knowledge Foundation Blog<p>"<strong>The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research</strong><strong> </strong><a href="http://fellows.frictionlessdata.io/">Fellows Program</a><strong>, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using</strong><strong> </strong><a href="https://frictionlessdata.io/">Frictionless Data</a><strong> </strong><strong>tools and approaches in their field.</strong></p>
<p>Fellows will learn about Frictionless Data, including how to use Frictionless tools in their domains to improve reproducible research workflows, and how to advocate for open science. Working closely with the Frictionless Data team, Fellows will lead training workshops at conferences, host events at universities and in labs, and write blogs and other communications content. In addition to mentorship, we are providing Fellows with stipends of $5,000 to support their work and time during the nine-month long Fellowship...."</p>
Mon, 13 May 2019 07:15:00 -0400https://blog.okfn.org/2019/05/08/open-call-become-a-frictionless-data-reproducible-research-fellow/
oa.newoa.dataoa.jobsoa.okfnEnvisioning data sharing for the biocomputing community | Interface Focus<p>Abstract: The scientific community is facing a revolution in several aspects of its modus operandi, ranging from the way science is done—data production, collection, analysis—to the way it is communicated and made available to the public, be that an academic audience or a general one. These changes have been largely determined by two key players: the big data revolution or, less triumphantly, the impressive increase in computational power and data storage capacity; and the accelerating paradigm switch in science publication, with people and policies increasingly pushing towards open access frameworks. All these factors prompt the undertaking of initiatives oriented to maximize the effectiveness of the computational efforts carried out worldwide. Taking the moves from these observations, we here propose a coordinated initiative, focusing on the computational biophysics and biochemistry community but general and flexible in its defining characteristics, which aims at addressing the growing necessity of collecting, rationalizing, sharing and exploiting the data produced in this scientific environment.</p>
Sun, 12 May 2019 08:11:00 -0400https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0005
oa.newoa.dataoa.biologyoa.physicsoa.chemistryoa.recommendationsHow a Wikipedia for drug discovery is disrupting big pharma<p>"But what if there was another way of developing the medicines we need? A way that eschews market incentives that stop pharma companies from developing medicines for diseases of poverty and does away with the secrecy that shrouds drug development.</p>
<p>According to advocates of open source pharma, there is....</p>
<p>Inspired by the open source movement in software, open drug discovery projects make their data and ideas available on the internet to anyone.</p>
<p>Matthew Todd, a professor of drug discovery at University College, London and one of the founders of the <a href="http://www.opensourcepharma.net/">open source pharma</a>movement believes that open source could potentially transform the way we find cures...."</p>
Sun, 12 May 2019 08:07:00 -0400https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/wikipedia-drug-discovery-disrupting-big-pharma/
oa.newoa.pharmaoa.medicineoa.dataNudging transparent behavioural science and policy | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core<p>Abstract: There are inherent differences in the priorities of academics and policy-makers. These pose unique challenges for teams such as the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), which has positioned itself as an organisation conducting academically rigorous behavioural science research in policy settings. Here we outline the threats to research transparency and reproducibility that stem from working with policy-makers and other non-academic stakeholders. These threats affect how we perform, communicate, verify and evaluate research. Solutions that increase research transparency include pre-registering study protocols, making data open and publishing summaries of results. We suggest an incentive structure (a simple ‘nudge’) that rewards BIT's non-academic partners for engaging in these practices.</p>
Sun, 12 May 2019 06:42:00 -0400https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-public-policy/article/nudging-transparent-behavioural-science-and-policy/58BFA4668394046C363C041936C6D097
oa.newoa.incentivesoa.reproducibilityoa.dataoa.recommendationsoa.sshBUILDING OPEN SCIENCE IN EUROPE: THE ROAD AHEAD FOR EU MEMBER STATES AND THE EOSC COMMUNITY<p>On 20 June 2019 we invite you all to take a forward-looking view and discuss the road ahead for the EOSC community in Europe and in the EU Member States. The programme was this event was developed by eInfraCentral in consultation with other EOSC-related projects such as <a href="https://einfracentral.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5cc611fe03629d9d4258d67c0&amp;id=a6d11cc8b8&amp;e=05af2e16a2">EOSC-hub</a> and <a href="https://einfracentral.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5cc611fe03629d9d4258d67c0&amp;id=be76b64a84&amp;e=05af2e16a2">EOSCsecretariat.eu</a>. </p>
<p>Tallinn as a location was chosen not by accident and not only because <a href="https://einfracentral.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5cc611fe03629d9d4258d67c0&amp;id=a47dd327b0&amp;e=05af2e16a2">TNC19</a> will be happening there the same week. Estonia has an ambitious vision “<a href="https://einfracentral.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5cc611fe03629d9d4258d67c0&amp;id=36eb8a48b7&amp;e=05af2e16a2">of becoming a safe e-state with automatic e-services available 24/7</a>” and Tallinn is one of the smartest cities in Europe. </p>
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Fri, 10 May 2019 01:50:00 -0400https://ri-paths.eu/news/building-open-science-in-europe-the-road-ahead-for-eu-member-states-and-the-eosc-community-20-june-2019-tallinn/
oa.newoa.franceoa.estoniaoa.eventsoa.eoscoa.cloudoa.platformsoa.dataoa.infrastructureoa.rdmoa.europe“Here be dragons”: Open Access to Research Data in the Humanities – Digital Humanities Methods and Tools<p>It has been estimated by Stefan Winkler Nees (from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG) in 2011 that 90% of all digital research data is lost.We don’t know how many of this data belonged to the Humanities and hopefully, these numbers are better today, but we can assume that still a lot of Humanities data (and other data) is lost, because of missing infrastructures, or because no one has taken care of the long-term availability of this data in time.</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 01:37:00 -0400https://dhmethods.hypotheses.org/262
oa.newoa.franceoa.dataoa.rdmoa.fundersoa.humantiesoa.sshoa.preservationoa.reproducibilityoa.fairoa.accessoa.best_practicesoa.principlesoa.eoscoa.cloudoa.repositories.dataoa.reuseoa.metadataoa.infrastructureoa.repositoriesThe CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and Research Data Science Advanced Workshops, 5-16 August, 2019, Trieste, Italy <h3>The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School will take place on 5-16 August 2019. <a href="https://e-applications.ictp.it/applicant/login/3317">Apply here! </a></h3>
<h3>Deadline: 18/04/2019</h3>
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<p>This school provides Early Career Researchers (at MSc-level to 3 years after their PhD) and Professionals (who register via ITU Academy) with the necessary set of foundational Data Science skills to enable them to analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner for the 21st century.</p>
<p>The material covered here is fundamental to all areas of Data Science and hence open to researchers from all disciplines that deal with significant amounts of data. The focus is to provide a practical introduction to these topics with extensive labs and seminars.</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 01:20:00 -0400http://iupab.org/2019/04/01/the-codata-rda-research-data-science-summer-school-and-research-data-science-advanced-workshops-5-16-august-2019-trieste-italy/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.eventsoa.dataoa.rdmoa.guidesoa.universitiesoa.heioa.best_practicesoa.recommendationsoa.trainingOpen Participatory Research — Four Challenges for Opening Science Beyond Scientific Institutions <p>Claudia Göbel proposes a framework of examination for how Citizen Science and other types of participatory research should form a more prominent part of the much needed cultural change in knowledge institutions. This is to complement the many reforms already underway in other areas of Open Science &amp; Scholarship.</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 01:03:00 -0400https://genr.eu/wp/open-participatory-research/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.open_scienceoa.specimensoa.dataoa.citizen_scienceoa.presentationsoa.eventsOpen Science in Kanada: Graswurzelbewegung und gesamtstaatlicher Ansatz (Open Science in Canada: Grassroots Effort and a National Approach)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"Canada is transitioning to open science at a great speed. The Canadian government and a myriad of other stakeholders have a strong commitment to foster open science. What is the key to the success of open science in Canada and what could others learn from Canada’s approach? We asked Mark Leggott and Portia Taylor."</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 00:57:00 -0400https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2019/04/open-science-in-canada-grassroots-effort-and-a-national-approach/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.germanoa.canadaoa.interviewsoa.open_scienceoa.rdmoa.dataoa.principlesoa.fundersoa.best_practicesoa.benefitsoa.declarationsThe Dutch open data portal organised a user meeting to discuss open data - European Data Portal<p>On 12 April 2019, the user meeting of the <a href="https://data.overheid.nl/">Dutch Open Data Portal</a> (data.overheid.nl) took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The meeting was organised by the <a href="https://www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-the-interior-and-kingdom-relations">Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations</a> to connect data owners, data re-users and people who are professionally or generally interested in open data to exchange their experience and ideas. The <a href="https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en">European Data Portal</a> joined the meeting and presented about the <a href="https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/save-date-eu-datathon-2019">EU Datathon 2019</a>.</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 00:50:00 -0400https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/dutch-open-data-portal-organised-user-meeting-discuss-open-data
oa.newoa.germanyoa.netherlandsoa.policies.dataoa.mandates.dataoa.mandatesoa.psioa.infrastructureoa.reuseoa.aioa.legislationoa.discussionsoa.eventsoa.policiesoa.dataThe Dutch open data portal organised a user meeting to discuss open data - European Data Portal<p>On 12 April 2019, the user meeting of the <a href="https://data.overheid.nl/">Dutch Open Data Portal</a> (data.overheid.nl) took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The meeting was organised by the <a href="https://www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-the-interior-and-kingdom-relations">Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations</a> to connect data owners, data re-users and people who are professionally or generally interested in open data to exchange their experience and ideas. The <a href="https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en">European Data Portal</a> joined the meeting and presented about the <a href="https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/save-date-eu-datathon-2019">EU Datathon 2019</a>.</p>
Fri, 10 May 2019 00:50:00 -0400https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/dutch-open-data-portal-organised-user-meeting-discuss-open-data
oa.newoa.germanyoa.netherlandsoa.policies.dataoa.mandates.dataoa.mandatesoa.psioa.infrastructureoa.reuseoa.aioa.legislationoa.discussionsoa.eventsoa.policiesoa.dataEuropean Parliament approves new rules on open data - European Data Portal<p>On 4 April 2019, the <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en">European Parliament</a> approved the recast of the <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-19-1935_en.htm">Open Data and Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive</a>. Thanks to this directive, public sector information and publicly funded data will become even more easily available and re-usable. This will in turn fuel the development of data-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence.</p>
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Fri, 10 May 2019 00:47:00 -0400https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/european-parliament-approves-new-rules-open-data
oa.newoa.germanyoa.policies.dataoa.mandates.dataoa.mandatesoa.psioa.infrastructureoa.reuseoa.aioa.legislationoa.policiesoa.dataoa.europeEuropean Parliament approves new rules on open data - European Data Portal<p>On 4 April 2019, the <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en">European Parliament</a> approved the recast of the <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-19-1935_en.htm">Open Data and Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive</a>. Thanks to this directive, public sector information and publicly funded data will become even more easily available and re-usable. This will in turn fuel the development of data-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence.</p>
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Fri, 10 May 2019 00:47:00 -0400https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/news/european-parliament-approves-new-rules-open-data
oa.newoa.germanyoa.policies.dataoa.mandates.dataoa.mandatesoa.psioa.infrastructureoa.reuseoa.aioa.legislationoa.policiesoa.dataoa.europeData Sharing Program Manager - Digital Science - Career Page<p>"<span>We are looking for a research data management expert to join our global and dynamic team....</span></p>
<p>If you know and love research data management, and want to be at the cutting edge helping the entire research community, we have the ideal role. You will lead the delivery and growth of one or more figshare-related US federal customers.</p>
<p>This role may be of interest to anyone in the current roles:</p>
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<li>Research Data Librarian</li>
<li>Data Curator</li>
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Thu, 09 May 2019 12:00:00 -0400https://digitalscience.applytojob.com/apply/50YpgTueEG/Data-Sharing-Program-Manager
oa.newoa.jobsoa.dataoa.usaoa.usa.dcoa.digital_scienceParis Declaration | Open Government Partnership<p>"Recognizing that digital technologies and the increased availability of data are transforming the way citizens and governments interact, and are creating new opportunities of participation, responsiveness and ongoing dialogue,...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 11:29:00 -0400https://www.opengovpartnership.org/paris-declaration
oa.declarationsoa.governmentoa.psioa.dataParis Declaration | Open Government Partnership<p>"Recognizing that digital technologies and the increased availability of data are transforming the way citizens and governments interact, and are creating new opportunities of participation, responsiveness and ongoing dialogue,...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 11:29:00 -0400https://www.opengovpartnership.org/paris-declaration
oa.declarationsoa.governmentoa.psioa.dataOpen Government Partnership and the Open Data for Development Network join forces to support open…<p>"<strong>The partnership will help advance the open data efforts in more than 60 OGP countries that have committed to implement ambitious open data principles.</strong></p>
<p>Since the creation of the Open Government Partnership, Open Data commitments have been at the core of open government initiatives aiming to empowering government and civil society reformers to improve public services, reduce corruption, and harness technology to make government more efficient. The <a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/paris-declaration">OGP 16 Paris Declaration</a> recognizes that the increased availability of data is transforming the way citizens and governments interact, and is creating new opportunities for participation, responsiveness, and ongoing dialogue...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 11:25:00 -0400https://medium.com/@od4_d/open-government-partnership-and-the-open-data-for-development-network-join-forces-to-support-open-da988bd1e041
oa.governmentoa.psioa.developmentoa.southoa.dataOpen Government Partnership and the Open Data for Development Network join forces to support open…<p>"<strong>The partnership will help advance the open data efforts in more than 60 OGP countries that have committed to implement ambitious open data principles.</strong></p>
<p>Since the creation of the Open Government Partnership, Open Data commitments have been at the core of open government initiatives aiming to empowering government and civil society reformers to improve public services, reduce corruption, and harness technology to make government more efficient. The <a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/paris-declaration">OGP 16 Paris Declaration</a> recognizes that the increased availability of data is transforming the way citizens and governments interact, and is creating new opportunities for participation, responsiveness, and ongoing dialogue...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 11:25:00 -0400https://medium.com/@od4_d/open-government-partnership-and-the-open-data-for-development-network-join-forces-to-support-open-da988bd1e041
oa.governmentoa.psioa.developmentoa.southoa.dataThe State of Open Data: future directions for research & action (roundtable) Tickets, Thu 16 May 2019 at 09:00 | Eventbrite<p>"In ‘The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons’ (forthcoming, May 2019) over 200 contributors have built up a picture of progress, challenges and future opportunities for securing publication and use of open data across a wide range of sectors and stakeholders: from work on anti-corruption and the extractives industries, to the practice of statistical offices and the decisions of international funders.</p>
<p>Join us for a roundtable to discuss findings from the project and to explore:</p>
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<p>Key lessons from the last decade of work on open data across the world;</p>
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<p>The changing landscape for work on open data, and what open data practice has to offer to emerging agendas around AI, data rights and data justice;</p>
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<p>The actions needed for open data work to make a positive contribution to democratic dialogue and sustainable development in the decade ahead;..."</p>
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Wed, 08 May 2019 09:50:00 -0400https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-of-open-data-future-directions-for-research-action-roundtable-tickets-59959921740
oa.newoa.dataoa.eventsOpen Data for Development<p>"Open Data for Development (OD4D) is a global partnership that supports southern leadership and locally-led data ecosystems around the world as a way to spur positive social change and sustainable development...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 08:48:00 -0400https://www.od4d.net/
oa.dataoa.developmentoa.southoa.advocacyHome | State of Open Data<p>"<span>The State of Open Data is a new project that seeks to review the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years. This will be a straightforward assessment of successes or failures that will look back in order to look forward at how best to shape the future of open data around the world.</span></p>
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<p><span>The project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) under the Open Data for Development (OD4D) Programme. The project is coordinated by a small team, but the intention is to seek the participation of a large number of open data leaders and researchers to author a range of chapters on diverse themes and areas of activity...."</span></p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 08:46:00 -0400https://www.stateofopendata.od4d.net/
oa.dataoa.developmentoa.southoa.monitoringWelcome to the Archives Unleashed Project<p>"Archives Unleashed aims to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past. Supported by a grant from the <a href="https://mellon.org/">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a>, we are developing web archive search and data analysis tools to enable scholars, librarians and archivists to access, share, and investigate recent history since the early days of the World Wide Web...."</p>
Wed, 08 May 2019 04:51:00 -0400https://archivesunleashed.org/
oa.newoa.mellon_foundationoa.preservationoa.choa.historyoa.searchoa.dataoa.flossoa.toolsoa.infrastructureoa.platformsAn open access medical knowledge base for community driven diagnostic decision support system development | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Full Text<p>Abstract: Introduction</p>
<p>While early diagnostic decision support systems were built around knowledge bases, more recent systems employ machine learning to consume large amounts of health data. We argue curated knowledge bases will remain an important component of future diagnostic decision support systems by providing ground truth and facilitating explainable human-computer interaction, but that prototype development is hampered by the lack of freely available computable knowledge bases.</p>
<p>Methods</p>
<p>We constructed an open access knowledge base and evaluated its potential in the context of a prototype decision support system. We developed a modified set-covering algorithm to benchmark the performance of our knowledge base compared to existing platforms. Testing was based on case reports from selected literature and medical student preparatory material.</p>
<p>Results</p>
<p>The knowledge base contains over 2000 ICD-10 coded diseases and 450 RX-Norm coded medications, with over 8000 unique observations encoded as SNOMED or LOINC semantic terms. Using 117 medical cases, we found the accuracy of the knowledge base and test algorithm to be comparable to established diagnostic tools such as Isabel and DXplain. Our prototype, as well as DXplain, showed the correct answer as “best suggestion” in 33% of the cases. While we identified shortcomings during development and evaluation, we found the knowledge base to be a promising platform for decision support systems.</p>
<p>Conclusion</p>
<p>We built and successfully evaluated an open access knowledge base to facilitate the development of new medical diagnostic assistants. This knowledge base can be expanded and curated by users and serve as a starting point to facilitate new technology development and system improvement in many contexts.</p>
Tue, 07 May 2019 09:58:00 -0400https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-019-0804-1
oa.newoa.medicineoa.dataoa.softwareoa.aioa.platformsOpen access image repositories: high-quality data to enable machine learning research - ScienceDirect<p>"Highlights</p>
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<dt>• Machine learning algorithms have shown promising results but the number of clinically successful AI products is limited.</dt>
<dt>• Access to appropriate data for training, testing and evaluation is a key limitation to the field.</dt>
<dt>• Open access repositories are a vital source of quality data needed for training and testing machine learning algorithms...."</dt>
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Tue, 07 May 2019 09:54:00 -0400https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009926019301692?via%3Dihub
oa.newoa.greenoa.imagesoa.medicineoa.dataoa.aioa.repositoriesNews & Views: The Basic Data About Our Market Is Misleading - Delta Think<p>"The chart shows the same measures taken (using the same methods and data sources) over successive years. The lines should match, but in more recent years, they diverge. The data varies depending on when the readings were taken.</p>
<p>Notice how, for example, the number of articles published in 2016 varies by 14% depending on when the index was consulted. The data suggest that articles continued to be published after the year they were published in. The trends suggest a catastrophic fall-off in output.</p>
<p>Clearly something is wrong. If publication output had dropped by 90%+ since 2016, every scholarly publishing stakeholder would be both aware and on high alert!...</p>
<p>The reason the divergence illustrated in the chart occurs is because it takes time for the major indexes to count publication outputs. Our industry lacks common infrastructure for gathering basic measures, leaving it instead to the thousands of publishers to deposit information. Even where infrastructure exists – such as CrossRef – publishers are not consistent about how quickly, how much, or even if they deposit information about their outputs. Additionally, the formats and standards they use do not always include the most effective meta data for characterizing publications (case in point: clearly and consistently specifying open access articles in hybrid journals)....</p>
<p>One might be tempted to think that the state of our data in scholarly publishing is “par for the course” – surely all industries are like this. However, that is not the case....</p>
<p>Basic metadata in our information industry should be like basic hygiene in healthcare. Boring but necessary. If scholarly publishers are stewards of the world’s evidence base, then surely, we need to get our own evidence in order?"</p>
Mon, 06 May 2019 09:07:00 -0400https://deltathink.com/news-views-the-basic-data-about-our-market-is-misleading/
oa.newoa.dataoa.publishingoa.publishersoa.metadataoa.obstaclesoa.speedoa.infrastructureOPEN YOUR HEART — Simon David Hirsbrunner on reasons why media scholars might be reluctant to open their research data <p>In the media studies community, open science (OS) is often taken as a synonym for open access publishing. For someone like me, who investigates techno-scientific practice from an epistemological (or ‹<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_studies">STS</a>›) perspective, such a narrow understanding of OS is not very rewarding. As other articles on the Open Media Studies blog have shown, open science goes beyond that and includes approaches such as Open Methodology, Open Source, Open Data, Open Access, Open Peer Review and Open Educational Resources.</p>
Sat, 04 May 2019 08:24:00 -0400https://mediastudies.hypotheses.org/1237
oa.newoa.germanyoa.rdmoa.dataoa.artsoa.oeroa.peer_reviewoa.obstaclesForschungsdaten.org - this wiki collects information about the handling of digital research data <p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"This wiki collects information about the handling of digital <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Forschungsdaten">research data</a> . Collaboration (eg in the form of new articles, additions and changes) is very welcome!</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Redaktion">editorial team</a> consists of <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Benutzer:Jochenklar">Jochen Klar</a> , <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Benutzer:Maxi">Maxi Kindling</a> (HU Berlin), <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Benutzer:Pampel">Heinz Pampel</a> (Helmholtz Association) and <a href="https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Benutzer:Jklump">Jens Klump</a> (CSIRO). It is from the</p>
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